by watti3460 » Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:02 pm
Thank you for the reply. I have recently gotten timetricks and I will be reading it asap. However, in the interim I was left to my own devices and I came up with a strange and admittedly non-canon take on the TimeMaster game world. You see even with your explanation, which is indeed excellent and most helpful, I have a hard time just hand waving the idea that the Demoreans just want to take over humanity and started a time war. I was a big fan of Michael Moorcock and I sort of came up with this.
Once upon a time there was a single universe and a single timeline. There was a big bang and a cosmic expansion and stars and worlds were formed, life began on many and civilizations arose on some. Eventually trillions of years later the universe cooled and began to contract. Stars winked out of existence and life began to become extinct regardless of its evolutionary progress.
However, there were two civilizations so advanced they tried to survive the collapse of the universe. One called the Keepers of Order for a lack of better term, embraced order or "negentropy" and the other chaos or "entropy". The Keepers evolve to such an extant they become highly ordered photons of energy which do not require a physical body and communicate solely through the formulas of physics. The chaos species evolve and also do not require a cohesive physical form and become amorphous matter capable of thought. Unfortunately, the chaotic ones embrace chaos so much they are unable to remain cohesive as they become pure chaos. It is too late for them to "go back" so the only way for them to survive this is to consume order. Thus they are know as the Eaters of Order.
Inevitably the two come into conflict and there is a war in this cold dying universe. As part of the war many of these creatures on both sides are destroyed. However, the Eaters develop the ability to shift in time and find that if they can alter past events they can increase entropy by releasing order to be consumed to sustain themselves. The Keepers follow them into these dimensions and attempt to destroy the Eaters. But not knowing the changes that have been made and not having physical form they cannot repair the damage. As the two races battle like this arbitrarily, they create many alternate universes. Eventually the Eaters determine that small changes create timelines, but the more ordered or established the universe they change the more order they can eat. However, the Eaters are limited by their small numbers and the fact that physically they are nothing more than amorphous blobs with little manipulative ability to make huge changes in history. Still, several universes have been reduced to churning unordered pure chaos by the Eaters as they consume order and expend it to remain cohesive and cognizant but they need more universes.
Eventually the Keepers sequester themselves in a dimension where order reigns and use their ability to interact directly with the laws of physics to battle the Eaters on multiple planes. The Keepers try to create a universe through subtle manipulations and their ability to see the future, in which a race evolves and the laws of physics are such, that that races creates time travel. To do this, they must reach back to just after the big bang where there is little order and introduce tiny amounts of order, to subtly change the timeline before it is well established. Ultimately, these are the humans in what we call T-0. In the process though, countless T like timelines are created as spin offs and failed experiments to this end.
This draws the attention of the Eaters who can sense this development of time travel. They realize this is a threat as the humans now have the ability to correct changes in their and other universes and rob the Eaters of entropy. Fortuitously, on one plane, the Eaters encountered the Demorians, ironically a highly ordered society but physically chaotic enough to be able to shapeshift, and bend them to do their bidding. They unleash the Demorians on the humans in T-0 in order to stop the creation of time travel. The Keepers still have powers and are able to influence T-0 through the manifesting of paranormal memory, and the slowing of temporal changes through the "time hates change" law which is directly related to the properties created by the the Keepers in the creation and maintaining of T-0, their best hopeto stop the Eaters.
So that's my back story. What do you think?